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2007-07-19T20:56:00.000-07:00

Get these interactive publications for a donation to one of the coolest organizations in the world!

Wishful Thinking (because you make the world so much brighter)

Get your own cute mint green copy of "Wishful Thinking" a poem full of wishes affirming you and envisioning the community that we deserve. This poem was first presented at the National Day of Truthtelling in Durham, NC and you can get your own copy by making a donation to the Day of Truthtelling Coalition.

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Wrong is Not My Name: A Tribute to Survival Via June Jordan

This interactive anthology was created by women of color in UBUNTU, a Durham, North Carolina based, women of color led coalition committed to creating a world free from sexual violence and full of sustaining transformative love. Miraculously this volume was compiled in 48 hours out of poems, essays and messages that we felt compelled to write and share with each other in the aftermath of a high profile sexual assault case in our community.

In addition to poems, an essay and a flyer, this book also includes an annotated reading list, guiding the reader through the work of June Jordan, which survives through all of us, as well as exercises designed to help you re(name) yourself. We hope that this anthology will inspire people in other locations to use poetry, publication and community as resources through which to respond to violence and affirm each other.

All donations will support the Teal Ribbon Fund, a fund to help survivors with advanced counseling, bill payment due to loss of employment, transportation, or
civil legal representation. The Teal Ribbon Fund was established by
NCCASA (North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault) and is available to survivors throughout North Carolina.

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The Gunny Wolf: African American Folktale Retold

This version of the African American folktale The Gunny Wolf is retold by Griot MaMa Nia as part of a SpiritHouse family literacy program called Cookies and Milk. The story is designed for all ages and this booklet includes activities and games to help us all sing past fear together! You can recieve your very own copy through the mail by making a donation to SpiritHouse. Email us at brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com!
(supporting community literacy through SpiritHouse)

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Need: Poetry as Activism

This is an interactive poetry publication inspired by Audre Lorde's resistance poem "Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices". Lorde wrote this poem after 12 black women were murdered within 4 months in Boston. Along with the publication you'll get a toolkit for a set of workshops that will empower you to create productive dialogue about important issues that your community is silent about.

Send an email to brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com about your work and consider making a donation to UBUNTU a woman of color, survivor led group committed to a world without gendered violence.

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Brokenbeautiful Broadside

Proceeds from the broadside go to the International Black Youth Summit . Email brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com and offer a donation and I'll get back at you soon!
(all proceeds go to the International Black Youth Summit)

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The Soul Sister Anthology

All proceeds from these sales will go to Black Organization of Soul Sisters. Send an email to brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com to make a donation and get a copy. Also find out how your group can publish an anthology as a fundraiser! Holler.

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young love (who we be)

2006-08-06T12:23:00.000-07:00

Youth, as we distinguish it, is the non-chronological magical strategy of perpetual rebirth. It is the production of freedom through a willingness to let go of expertise, knowledge and safety and to become new and possible. Youth is growth, faith, self-reflexivity and impulsive action toward a miraculous now. Youth is not limited by age.

Love exists in life as a powerful, unconditional and infinite entity.
Culture creates our expressions of love, but love is not limited by culture.
One manifests love as joy, passion, trust/faith, compassion and connection inclusively.

make love: sustaining a black freedom project

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young love (who we be)